Compete through resilience, not reliance
Globalization as we know it is over. The United States no longer stands alone, and China’s rise has redrawn the world’s balance of power. In this new age of parity, resilience has...
October 17, 2025 • by David Bach, Simon J. Evenett, Stéphane J. G. Girod, Öykü Işık, Vanina Farber in Geopolitics • 8 min read
Leaders at the WEF’s Annual Meetings of the Global Future Councils and Cybersecurity focused less on rivalry and more on action. ...
Continue readingOctober 14, 2025 • by David Bach in Geopolitics • 5 min read
Globalization as we know it is over. The United States no longer stands alone, and China’s rise has redrawn the world’s balance of power. In this new age of parity, resilience has...
October 4, 2025 • by David Bach in Geopolitics • 5 min read
At the IMD Alumni Symposium, World Economic Forum President Børge Brende argued that despite global turmoil, he sees a resilient world economy, but warns that success will depend on adaptation and reform....
September 30, 2025 • by Jerry Davis in Geopolitics • 8 min read
The success of the biggest American companies and pension funds depends on international markets. Perhaps this can give the world the leverage it needs to keep the US on board for the...
September 24, 2025 • by Arturo Bris in Geopolitics • 8 min read
Business leaders must master the art of building strategies that take account of partisan divides over net-zero goals while progressing the interests of their company and society....
September 17, 2025 • by Stéphane J. G. Girod in Geopolitics • 7 min read
The sudden imposition of 39% tariffs on Swiss watches in the United States has unsettled one of Switzerland’s most iconic industries. More than a cost shock, it is forcing watchmakers to rethink...
September 1, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Manuel Braun in Geopolitics • 9 min read
In the final article of our series, we explore how businesses face hard planetary and geopolitical limits that make the “business as usual” growth model untenable as climate shocks, biodiversity loss, and...
August 27, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Manuel Braun in Geopolitics • 7 min read
The race for tech sovereignty is intensifying as AI’s growth drives fierce competition for the rare minerals, chips, energy, and talent that underpin advanced computing. Supply chain fragility, geopolitical tensions, and export...
August 26, 2025 • by Richard Baldwin, Michael Yaziji in Geopolitics • 11 min read
The rules-based order that underpinned globalization is lurching from an open-source to a closed-source model. But even without the participation of the US, an ‘open hybrid’ system will ensure stability in the...
August 25, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Manuel Braun in Geopolitics • 7 min read
After decades of cheap everything, a new economic order is emerging where the old world of unquestioned abundance is over. In the third part of our five-article series, we explore how this...
August 22, 2025 in Geopolitics • 6 min read
Diego De Giorgi, Group Chief Financial Officer of Standard Chartered, explains how the bank is navigating global uncertainty, transforming its operations, and why cultural leadership is now central to the CFO role....
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